Find Bachelor Programs in Product Design in Europe 2017

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FDModa - LCI Barcelona

Bachelors in Product Design in Europe 2017. Language of instruction: Spanish
Would you like to learn new techniques such as 3D printing or digital products? To conceive functional, aesthetic, ethical and sustainable designs?
Study a Degree in Product Design, University Degree equivalent internationally recognized.
- Receive academic training structured in four years with an option to Mention Specialty.
- Immerse yourself in the culture of product innovation. Emphasis on digital product design. Meet the newest techniques and production methods, such as 3D printing.
- Practical learning tailored to the needs of the market. Project methodology.
- Enjoy fully equipped with the latest software classrooms.
- Small groups and personal attention from professors with professional experience in the field of product design that will help you develop your potential and achieve your goals.
GOALS
Superior Artistic Design Degree specializing in Product Design The general goal to provide qualified training designers to fully immerse them in the culture of product innovation, with special emphasis on the design of digital product. Great importance to developing effective for the analysis of the environmental impact of products methods also will be awarded.
The profile of the product designer is that of a professional by techniques, research methods and design processes can generate new concepts and innovation in product design, being aware of the positive social impact of the design, its impact on improving the quality of life and the environment and its ability to generate identity, innovation and quality in production.
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University of Minho - School of Arquitecture

CampusFull time3 yearsSeptember 2017PortugalGuimarães

The range of products and services that a Product Designer works in is very broad: from sporting goods to packaging, from small domestic devices to transport vehicles, from the corporate identity of a company to an innovative service to improve the quality of life of old people, etc.
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Academic degree: Bachelor (Bologna 1st cycle degree)
ECTS: 180
Duration: 6 curricular semesters
Regime: Normal
Place: Azurém Campus, Guimarães
Main Scientific area: Design
BACHELOR | 3 YEARS
The Bachelor of Product Design provides an increasingly deepening learning across the study plan, based on the project activity, with the support of design as an instrument of conception and representation, and theory and history which stimulate the reflection on the practice of Product Design. The knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of the main materials and manufacturing technologies associated with them should lead to innovative solutions and the ability to develop integrated projects, from design to manufacturing, assembly, distribution and end of life.
Careers
The range of knowledge and skills acquired throughout the programme, together with the continuing practice of team project work, will prepare versatile professionals who will easily integrate the job market. Students, now professionals, will be able to exercise their professional activity as product designers and product marketing experts, at the service of industrial enterprises, design offices, government organizations, among others.
In addition, and similarly to what occurs in some European programmes, the skills acquired throughout the academic years will make possible that a significant part of graduated students in Product Design start their own business.
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Bachelors in Product Design in Europe 2017. If you want more information you can contact us at: 00.34.96.136.90.23 or international@uchceu.es You can also access the application form by clicking here: https://intranet.uchceu.es/formulario/admision/admision.html
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LISAA Paris

CampusFull time3 yearsSeptember 2017FranceParis

This course trains designers who are capable of designing objects or spaces to, at the same time, apply technologies enabling them to be connected to each other or to a service. The strength of this innovative course lies in its both global and multidisciplinary approach.
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Bachelors in Product Design in Europe 2017. This course trains designers who are capable of designing objects or spaces to, at the same time, apply technologies enabling them to be connected to each other or to a service. The strength of this innovative course lies in its both global and multidisciplinary approach.
PROGRAMME OPENS IN SEPTEMBER 2016
Thanks to numerous partnerships with companies in the industry, and a teaching staff made up of architecture and design professionals, LISAA is widely renowned, notably by the Ministry of Culture and Communications and also by UNAID (French National Union of Interior Architecture Designers).
BACHELOR-EQUIVALENT QUALIFICATION
The course in Connected Design takes place over four years or over three following a foundation year (MANAA) or an Introductory Course in Applied Arts. Students can join in at the beginning of every year (1st, 2nd or 3rd year).
Advantages of the Course
Classes centred around real projects in order for students to acquire creative and technical skills
Project-based teaching centred on the mastering of digital tools
A teaching staff made up of industry professionals, aware of the technological changes occurring in a constantly evolving industry
Permanent links with the reality of the profession via workshops and partner companies aiding the professional insertion of graduates
Careers
IoT designer
Product designer
Service designer
Entry Requirements & Application
Admission to LISAA Paris is subject to both the presentation of a portfolio of work and an oral interview. The objective of these conditions is not merely to assess the candidate’s level but also — and above all — to gauge his or her motivation and the potential of his or her academic profile to suit the specificities of the professions in design. Students can join in at the beginning of every year (1st, 2nd or 3rd year).
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IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Florence

CampusFull time3 yearsOctober 2017ItalyFlorence

The Fashion Design three years course has as its objective to give the student a solid base regarding the various aspects of this field, exploring both the methods and the technical-operations side, helping to form a highly flexible specialist capable of working in various types of environments and disciplines: from the small artisanal producer, to the small-medium size company, all the way up to the largest multinationals.
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THIS PROGRAM IS TAUGHT IN ITALIAN
This is a three-year course taught in English language based on IED’s successful and advanced educational system, which continually generates highly skilled creative fashion graduates who go on to successfully establish themselves at all levels and in all fields of the fashion industry.
In order to gain confidence in design basics, the first year programme includes theoretical studies as well as practice-based modules focused on designing. In the second year studies go on upon the knowledge that students have acquired in the previous 2 semesters. The third and final year is dedicated to improving work skills up to professional industry standards. Therefore, the fifth and sixth semester are dedicated to the Final Project and to preparing the students for their professional life after IED.
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IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Como

CampusFull time3 yearsOctober 2017ItalyComo

During the First Level Academic Diploma recognized by the Ministry of Education The course in Fashion & Textile Design arises purpose is to train new professionals, which on one hand have an adequate command of the methods and traditional art techniques, and on the other to acquire specific skills disciplinary professional and innovative in the use of the representation of artistic practices and tools with regard to communication, fashion design, product design, textile design.
The disciplines proposed by the curriculum are designed to train professionals to be able to use its production capacity, relating specifically to all stages of the industrial production and marketing of the product.
The course is developed through the relationship with companies and professionals of the Fashion System Comasco and international, through a partnership with the textile industry and local institutions.
To make it even more important to the practical component of the course, a great contribution is the use of Factory dedicated to the creation and development of creative ideas within fashion.
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Bachelors in Product Design in Europe 2017. THIS PROGRAM IS IN ITALIAN Taught
And 'workshop of ideas, an open space just a few meters from Camerlata FNM and the Academy itself, "segment" of a prestigious company pool (textiles, etc.) between cutting edge technological equipment and facilities crafted - traditional. In this particular environment halfway between an industrial building and an artist's studio, you draw by hand, printing with plange (tampons and printing screens traditional), is woven, knitted working, you paint, is colored and He works, almost industrially, drawing on computer and reporting all digital processing of industrial machines for the optimization of the product. The tessuteca is the necessary "training" of exercise and consultation, provision of the student to complete and refine their study subjects, through the processing of both traditional and innovative materials. Here you can see different textile archives, color and magazines and printing proofs technique.
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IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Madrid

CampusFull time4 yearsOctober 2017SpainMadrid

The Official Undergraduate Degree in Product Design trains students to be creative professionals with technological and project knowledge that enables them to develop products and services for consumers, keeping in mind their intervention with the environment.
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THIS PROGRAM IS TAUGHT IN SPANISH
The Official Undergraduate Degree in Product Design trains students to be creative professionals with technological and project knowledge that enables them to develop products and services for consumers, keeping in mind their intervention with the environment. The design of all kinds of objects, produced industrially or artisanally, to make them attractive and useful for users. Product desingers anticipate the demands and needs of the market, developing projects in a resposible way, working on research and the implementation of new methods, materials and manufacturing processes.
Professional Profiles: Urban and domestic furniture designer; Product designer; Household products, bath and home accessories designer, lighting, toys, items, packaging, jewellery, etc.
The Official Undergraduate Degree in Design, specialising in Product Design, trains students to become creative, ethical and innovative designers, with projectual, technological and management skills which will allow them to develop products and services to improve the quality of life of users and the environment.
The teaching methodology revolves around a method based on the current economic and social-cultural context, where students learn about the importance of their professional role, with the
production of their own multidisciplinary projects for research, experimentation and creativity, synchronising with other support contents and activities, such as seminars, workshops and technical, technological, cultural and communication subjects.
The contact with companies, designers, experts on sustainability and industry, and other professionals forms part of the continuous experience enjoyed by the students.
By the third year, students may choose from three different specialisations: Product, Home Design or Urban Design.
This program has been recognized by the Autonomous Government of Madrid and the Spanish National Government as an official Degree in Product Design.
COURSE LANGUAGE: SPANISH
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Willem de Kooning Academy

CampusFull timeSeptember 2017NetherlandsRotterdam

Product Design is about constantly examining the relationship between products and their users. There are all sorts of products and they are everywhere, from the purely functional to those that make a statement.
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Bachelors in Product Design in Europe 2017. Product Design is about constantly examining the relationship between products and their users. There are all sorts of products and they are everywhere, from the purely functional to those that make a statement.
Emerging new technologies are triggering debate about the foundations of existing ideas about product design, use and the product economy. The free use of new distribution and production opportunities are creating major opportunities for product designers now.
At its core, product design is about questioning and redefining what already exists. This is why, as a product designer, you develop meaning and think about appearance.
An important part of your course is discovering and developing materials, often new ones, and production processes by literally ‘getting your hands dirty’. You could even go one step further: to not be afraid to dismantle the existing, both in a physical and a conceptual sense as well as in terms of production and distribution. In doing so, you develop new ideas and ways of use; you dive deeply into the consequences of designing in practice. Examples are aspects such as environmental and social sustainability.
As a product designer, you are thus not limited to existing instruments, but you either adapt these instruments or you design your own instruments. This goes beyond the product itself: product design is not limited to tangible things, but it can also result into a process or a service.
In short, product designers are people who see themselves as experimental, research-driven, collaborative and entrepreneurial in imagining how products can change our future.
Creating Pioneers
Our successful Lifestyle alumni include: Suzanne van Beest (nominated for the Electrolux Design Lab Competition and listed in HOT100) and Isaac Monté (winner of the Drempel Award 2013 and the Henri Winkelman Award 2013; currently he is Head of the Department of Product Design at The Academy of Design in Colombo/Sri Lanka).
PORTFOLIO CHECKLIST
Are you …
talented in visual arts?
independent and responsible?
dedicated and motivated?
entrepreneurial?
Then visit one of our Open Days or Open Evenings – and bring your portfolio! – and apply for admission.
WHAT
A selection of 10-15 works which were preceded by a creative process
For example: designs, objects, photos, films, games, animations, fashion (accessories), furniture, models, drawings, posters, campaigns, paintings, usable artifacts and sculptures. You can publish and present all of this in a neat traditional portfolio folder, but you can also use different methods: 3D work can be brought in a (cardboard) box, digital work can be presented on a laptop or tablet.
Please note: apart from these works, please show us some other things you created. Make a careful selection between the two. That way, we can assess to what extent you have an insight in your own qualities and your own work.
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IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Barcelona

The Undergraduate Degree in Product Design (240 ECTS) prepares professionals who can develop projects of technological and technical nature, from consumer electronics or capital goods, to furniture, lighting or decoration objects.
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THIS PROGRAM IS TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
The Undergraduate Degree in Product Design (240 ECTS) prepares professionals who can develop projects of technological and technical nature, from consumer electronics or capital goods, to furniture, lighting or decoration objects.
Physical and functional characteristics are taught to obtain a product to be manufactured industrially and perform as intended with the highest efficiency and quality. Also acquirement of skills to value and solve problems, needs and requirements affecting the formalization of a product, determining its industrial quality and proper integration into the market. Lastly, the comprehension that design is not only recommendable for companies to improve their efficiency and profitability: it also has a social function, because its intervention conditions environment quality and people’s life.
Professional outcomes: Product designer, urban furniture, products for mobility, packaging, home accessories, material research, 3D modeller, merchandising, etc.
The Undergraduate Degree in Product Design offers a formative path where students learn to comprehend and anticipate market demands, working with business intents and translating them into a defined project to be carried out industrially. It promotes the relevance of concept itself, to foresee trends and consumer styles, thanks to the understanding of market exigencies. It also provides knowledge of materials and production technologies in order to carry out the projects. Beyond the theoretical comprehension of the project, students focus on analysis of technologies, ergonomics and usability.
The first year is focused on acquiring basic concepts of design, culture and project methods. Students learn to dare to create and communicate.
The second year is concentrated on developing one’s own creativity individually, and starting to study the speciality tools, such as: modelling, productive, mechanical and digital systems, sketch and storytelling, Rhino, Cad and communication using Illustrator, Photoshop and oral communication.
The third year means the beginning of collaborations with companies and new, more technical and complex projects, with prototypes and real costs. Work is developed in transversal teams composed by students of Product, Interior and Transportation design. In addition, new materials will be studied such as sustainable or technological materials, nanomaterials, etc.
During the fourth year students take a compulsory intership in a company and each one chooses a professional profile. Creative management acquires a great relevance through project management and rethinking, modifying and refining projects to respond properly to users’ and market’s needs. Lastly, the degree final project is developed in collaboration with real companies, where prototypes are produced. In successful cases, those prototypes will evolve and manufacture to be launched into the market.
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Universidad CEU - Cardenal Herrera

CampusFull timePart time4 yearsSeptember 2017SpainValencia
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General skills: Ability of analysis and synthesis, providing efficiency to decision-making, problem solving. Achieving this competency involves being able to gather analyze and synthesize relevant data, in order to make decisions that involve solving problems or detecting them, whether theoretical or practical, with the ultimate aim of transmitting the conclusions obtained.
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Bachelors in Product Design in Europe 2017.
Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development
OFFICIAL TITLE: Degree in Industrial Design Engineering and Product Development
DURATION / ECTS: 4 years / 240 ECTS
SEATS / CAMPUS: 60 / Moncada - Alfara
PLACE AT: Spanish
LEARNING OUTCOMES
general skills
CG1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis, providing efficiency to decision-making, problem solving. Achieving this competency involves being able to gather analyze and synthesize relevant data, in order to make decisions that involve solving problems or detecting them, whether theoretical or practical, with the ultimate aim of transmitting the conclusions obtained.
CG2. Ability to work in interdisciplinary teams, negotiation skills and consensus. Achieving this competency involves being able to integrate into organizations and work teams and lead them, be able to negotiate, manage and mediate the assumption of agreements from the goal of achieving more just and convenient to the proposed end solution; contributing assertively and respectful to the delimitation, planning and development objectives.
CG3. Ability to investigate and relate the various areas of knowledge that converge in professional practice. Achieving this competition involves the acquisition of an overview of both problems and solutions, and the ability and capacity to relate different knowledge leading to more efficient and effective solutions to complex issues. Professionals required in a society like today must necessarily assume the complexity of the changes and, therefore, consideration of multiple variables that make optimal solutions.
CG4. Self-learning ability, responsibility for own learning. Commitment to excellence. Achieving this competency involves being able to design a work plan and undertake its culmination in the allotted time, with perseverance and flexibility, anticipating and overcoming the difficulties encountered in their development and integrating the modifications required in the process development, professional and qualified way.
CG5. Ability to adapt to technological changes. Sensitivity to the need for updating knowledge. Adapting to new situations. Achieving this competency involves being aware of the current situation and challenges, assuming the changes as a constant, assuming the need for continuous learning throughout life and the necessary adaptation to the professional environment varies so rapid and constant, and increasingly this trend will become clearer.
CG6. ethics and professional integrity. active respect, both people and to the environment. Professional ethics. Attitude to propose sensible solutions to social needs and assess their impact. Achieving this competition implies an attitude of seeking truth from different orders of knowledge about human nature and dignity of the common people to all men and women, with particular attention to the ethical and moral implications . Respect and awareness in maintaining sustainable living conditions, with particular emphasis on environmental aspects.
CG7. Being able to express themselves correctly and effectively both in Castilian, as in a foreign language. Achieving this competency involves being able to develop the skills to work proficiently and effectively, both in writing and orally, in the official language and in English, as the global language, and essentially, in third and fourth skills Languages.
CG8. Having sound and strong about society and current culture criteria. Achieving this competition involves acquiring criteria for understanding and assessing the current society and culture, based on rigorous consideration of the present reality and its historical roots, allowing then to participate responsibly in social life.
CG9. Being able to understand and synthesize complex propositions, critically, in the context in which they are presented. Achieving this competency involves being able to define, distinguish and relate both the basics and the premises on which the exposure of any argument is built, as well as to state and substantiate the content of synthetic and critically, in the context? scientific, political, media, organizational, etc. in which they are presented.
Specific skills
CE1. Capacity and instrumental skill that brings together the knowledge, familiarity and mastery of techniques and communication tools, techniques and systems of visual representation (drawing, advanced and specific software, layout and modeling). Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to transform ideas and abstract concepts into recognizable formalisations in two and three dimensions.
CE2. Ability to apply aesthetic design fundamentals: color, shape, structure, space, volume. Acquire and apply knowledge concerning the aesthetic-formal basis involved in graphics objects or media to be able to develop products.
CE3. Capacity decision making criteria and choice of materials to design problems. Acquire and apply in the design process knowledge of the technical features, relating to materials and manufacturing processes necessary in the development of new industrial products.
EC4. Ability to apply and integrate multidisciplinary knowledge: art history and design theory and design methodology, human sciences, economics and marketing, product communication, legal aspects, work organization, etc. Acquire and apply correctly balanced and knowledge concerning the various disciplines involved in the whole design process of development of new industrial products.
CE5. Being able to communicate information, ideas, concepts, adapted to any design issues, solutions through the different visions of the discipline. Achieving this competition allows to adapt the skills and resources acquired to communicate to others both solutions and the factors involved throughout the product development process. The design professional must be able to effectively communicate aspects of their proposals.
CE6. Analyze and solve design problems: analysis of the conditions and criteria definition, evaluation of uses and functions, ability to find alternative design solutions and evaluate them. Achieving this competition allows necessary to collect and interpret relevant to each project of Industrial Design and Development of new products research data.
EC7. Being able to undertake and complete innovative projects autonomous, professional and qualified way. Achieving this competition allows autonomously assume the development of professional and qualified projects with a high degree of value and differentiation through innovative search.
EC8. Capacity aesthetic and creative appreciation. Ability to innovate. Achieving this competition can apply and relate the expertise of the discipline by providing products designed for creativity and innovation.
EC9. Capacity for experimentation. Achieving this competition allows to a complex context learned not provide solutions to new problems, if not be able skills acquired through experience new solutions to new problems in a completely new context also.
CE10. Ability to project industrial products. Design methodological and cultural skills. Achieving this competition can take on the challenge of designing new products by applying the knowledge acquired, and an autonomous methodological and cultural implicit capacity in project processes.
CE11. Ability to manage design and innovation. Integration into business strategies. Achieving this competition can register the professional activity in business environments that will take place, with the ability to integrate relevant activities with other business activities, with a strong manager component. The design every day, is a key strategic element for companies, design professional should be able to integrate and manage its business by knowledge of business dynamics.
CE12. To provide students with a competitive and professional profile that integrates the latest design criteria, communication and application. Achieving this competition allows students to associate the importance of both a good product development and its communication on the market.
CE13. Ability to strategically communicate the products as a factor of innovation and contribution and value. Peermite provide students with theoretical and practical tools to develop creative and communication capacity and skills of strategic analysis.
CE14. Ability to design products, services and applications through digital media. Achieving this competition allows students to register your design activity and product development in the new digital media.
JOB
Professional outings
There are different and varied opportunities to practice the profession of designer. On the one hand there is the option of practice as a freelance designer with his own studio, and another, as a designer integrated into a department of a company.
Career opportunities depend both on their own skills and training and the different opportunities that present themselves.
The design has been established several policy areas or specializations also determine the contents of academic degrees offered at the School.
On the one hand, the Industrial Design or Product includes furniture design, lighting, transportation, toys, appliances, packaging, footwear, etc.
Graphic Design deals with visual communication messages. Includes the design of brands, logos and signs, the definition of the corporate identity of companies, editorial design, packaging, illustration, signage, etc.
The professional profile that defines the training at the School is a generalist designer, capable of solving projects in different fields as diverse as those mentioned and therefore be prepared to serve a vision of global and complete profession.
The related Engineering Degree in Industrial Design and Product Development professions encompass:
Products: industrial and strategic
Industrial sectors: furniture, ilumación, textiles, ceramics, technological, automotive.
Product communication: graphic design and packaging.
What makes us different?
1.A degree to look behind things
Industrial design is the discipline that is responsible for creating and developing the equipment of the world around us. If you have a restless mind if ever you wondered why an object is that way, if you wonder who creates things around you as your phone, your shoes, your bike or chair where you are sitting, the answer is here. The industrial designer is responsible for designing and shaping the objects that surround the human being, from your car to the fork we eat every day.
2. The first School of Design
Industrial Design Valencia has a great national and international prestige. Our "Design School" was the first to be university and its long history has allowed us to now have alumni who are prominent designers worldwide. Many work from Valencia creating designs that are sold on five continents.
3. The professional approach
Our "School" is closely connected with companies as a form of professional springboard for students. And in our classrooms a curious mixture occurs: we have experienced teachers and others who are young alumni, and is that good mixes new ideas.
4. Doors of employability
The plus Tools Professional: During the degree'll take most leaning on matters of the profession tools. But you not only end up the knowing handle grade will also be carrying you the competence as evidenced by certificates: Tools of Product Design (150 hours: Autocad, Rhinoceros3D, VRayRendering, Catia), Certificate in Graphic Tools (90 hours: Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign) and Certified Tools for design and online communication (90 hours: Adobe Flash, Wordpress).
The Portfolio Project: consider it essential that every student who goes to market under the arm carries its own portfolio of projects, the results of the subjects of projects packaged in a single document presents a much more comprehensive way than a traditional curriculum. In this way the chances of getting a job are multiplied, giving a much more accurate picture of their capabilities and highlighting the high qualification of our students
"The portfolio, your ultimate tool access to the labor market"
5. The international dimension
The formation of our students seeking full professional development designer, you must be prepared for the international market.
We also offer additional training in English and Castilian from first to fourth to improve your level of communication in the international arena. Also we offer opportunities for national and international practices.
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VIA University College

CampusFull time7 semestersSeptember 2017DenmarkHerning

The bachelor programme in Materials Science and Product Design is a 3½-year full-time programme taught in English, which enables you to work with materials and manufacturing processes in the fashion and furniture business. You get expert knowledge of new and innovative materials and insight into modern processing technology. Apart from that you get insight into modern processing technology, thus you can be part of...
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Bachelor in Materials Science and Product Design
The bachelor programme in Materials Science and Product Design is a 3½-year full-time programme taught in English, which enables you to work with materials and manufacturing processes in the fashion and furniture business. You get expert knowledge of new and innovative materials and insight into modern processing technology.
Apart from that you get insight into modern processing technology, thus you can be part of optimising aspects when it comes to techniques, product design, product development process, economics, and production in manufacturing companies.
The programme takes place in Herning in collaboration with the engineering training programmes at VIA and the University of Aarhus in Herning (AU Herning).
Content and Structure
The studies are based on theory as well as projects. Through different projects you develop your ability to collaborate as well as develop and manage projects. Our workshops and laboratory offers the opportunity to test your theoretical competences in a practical manner.
During your studies you will experience a close contact with companies from the textile or furniture industry i.e. through guest lectures, company visits, a trainee period and projects.
The programme stretches over seven semesters. The course structure is based on common subjects and a range of subjects based on your speciality, i.e. textile or furniture. Furthermore, you get to test your skills in a trainee period on the fifth semester. Below you will see a list of subject areas that runs across the semesters.
On the 5th semester of this programme, you will have the opportunity of gaining practical experience during a work placement period, while the 7th will focus mainly on your final bachelor project.
Career Opportunities
As a Material Technology Engineer you have the competences to enter a wide range of jobs. For instance, you can work with product development, financial management, development and research on new materials, purchasing of new materials and products, and disposals and consultancy on materials and processes.
You job title could either be a furniture engineer, textile engineer, product developer, controller, sourcer or material, process consultant etc.
Admission Requirements
VIA University College will accept applications from international students having a:
Upper Secondary School Examination
The International and the European Baccalaureates
Vocational education within business
Other equivalent certificates or professional qualifications
The above certificates must provide evidence of:
Mathematics corresponding to a Danish A-level (advanced level)
Physics corresponding to a Danish B-level (intermediate level) or Earth Sciences at Danish A level
Chemistry corresponding to a Danish C level (pre-intermediate level) or Biotechnology corresponding to a Danish A-level (advanced level)
English language proficiency corresponding to a Danish B-level (intermediate level
Duration and Price
Start date: September 2016
Duration: 3.5 years
Price: 46.000 EUR (Applicable in full to non-EU citizens)
Campus/Place: Herning
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Cardiff Metropolitan University

CampusFull time3 yearsAugust 2017United KingdomCardiff

Your studies may take the form of either a BA or BSc in Product Design, with the option to switch from one to the other at the end of Level 4, once your interests and aspirations have become more defined. Irrespective of this choice, your studies will involve you learning the product development process, from concept to production.
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Bachelors in Product Design in Europe 2017. A Product Designer solves problems by conceptualising ideas and, through a systematic process of testing and evaluation, takes them forward towards a fully realised product suitable for manufacture. To do this, they require an array of skills and talents, including a heightened analytic ability, an inquisitive engagement with form and function, and a deep knowledge of materials and technologies.
Your studies may take the form of either a BA or BSc in Product Design, with the option to switch from one to the other at the end of Level 4, once your interests and aspirations have become more defined. Irrespective of this choice, your studies will involve you learning the product development process, from concept to production. We take a creative, user-centred approach to design, through observing, listening and testing user-response to products.
You will have access to a very wide range of workshop facilities and can develop skills in both traditional and unusual technologies. Working in specialist design studios, you will gain a practical understanding of a wide range of materials. On the BA Product Design, the focus is more on the intellectual and creative skills required to develop objects of purpose, beauty and social relevance. You will be positioned to understand the user, not least in relation to the forms and functions of objects in social groups and diverse cultural situations. In the BSc Product Design, the focus is more on technical and engineering issues and be concerned with design for manufacture and assembly. You will have the chance to develop your logistical and intellectual skills, especially those needed for problem solving and product development. ​The structure of both courses offers you the opportunity to gather strong business perspective, undertake a work placement within industry, carry out research with one of our Professors and research staff, or travel to study Product Design in countries where the traditions and culture are very different. In the third year, Product Design students can elect to undertake design projects and a dissertation, preparing the way for your choice of career on graduation. The choice is yours, and it is there to help realise your ambitions – whether they are to continue your personal development through further study, build an audience for your work, work in industry, join an agency, or build the beginnings of your client list.
Course Content
The focus of the degree is not only to develop you as a student and critical thinker, but to inspire your growth into a multi skilled and intellectual designer. These attributes, which are dependent on one another, combined with practical experience and an understanding of the product design industry, will form the beginning of your career, and stand you in the strongest possible position to carry yourself forward.
The Product Design programme is taught by a dedicated team of academics and practicing designers; staff interests and research areas range from prototyping, user-centered design, critical design, and brand form development, to lighting, joinery and contemporary furniture.
The BA and BSc product design courses are structured to be delivered over 3 years with 3 modules per year entitled 'Subject', 'Field' and 'Constellation.'
Employability and Careers
Whilst your learning is designed to develop you into a rounded and capable artist/designer and intellectual, your curriculum is similarly structured with your potential in mind.
As such, the emphasis that will have been placed upon your work ethic, both creatively and academically, is matched with significant focus on real world experience; from building contacts and undertaking placements to live briefs and, should you choose so, support in forming your own business.
You can elect to take a route through your second and final years of studies where you can engage with businesses or launch your own for the moment you graduate. In your final year, rather than submit a dissertation, you have the option of devising a detailed business plan.
Throughout your time at CSAD, you will be meeting and hearing from professionals within your industry, honing your skills and ideas for commercial and professional advantage. Cross-disciplinary projects will prepare you for teamwork later on, whilst live briefs will prepare you for deadlines and the demands of tight specifications.
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Castelo Branco University of Applied Sciences

Campus3 yearsSeptember 2017PortugalCastelo Branco

Acquire knowledge and skills able to guide the student in project-practice | Encouraging creative conceptual attitude by students in response to a functional and symbolic program, incorporating in their projects regulatory requirements and ergonomic | Make use of fundamental procedural methodologies to translate ideas and reach solutions, including the design, graphically exploring the representation of interiors and their furnishings, lighting, materials, supplemented by the models feature | Apply sustainable solutions from an environmental point of view and recycling of pre-existing elements | Sustaining the solutions projective through appropriate technical representation to ensure its implementation on site.
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Goals
Staff training in specific areas of interior design, able to integrate design engineering interior design of furniture and equipment, window dressing and performing the show, particularly in the area of ​​scenography
Career
- Creative Director - Interior Designer - model maker - Set Designer - window dresser - Decorator - Designer furniture and equipment
Entrance Examinations
Candidates must perform one of the following tests: - Drawing or - Descriptive Geometry or - History of Culture and Arts.
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Quasar Design University in Rome

CampusFull timePart timeNovember 2017ItalyRome

The three-year post-diploma course in Habitat Design form designers in the following areas: interior architecture, product design, green architecture and open spaces, exhibition stands and exhibitions.
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Bachelors in Product Design in Europe 2017. Habitat Design
The three-year post-diploma course in Habitat Design form designers in the following areas:
interior architecture
product design,
green architecture and open spaces,
exhibition stands and exhibitions.
The course is active since 1987 and updated with each new edition. The course is recognized by MIUR as an Academic Diploma Level I.
Who it is aimed at
This university-level course is aimed at school leavers, from all types of secondary schools, who intend to dedicate themselves – to paraphrase Munari – to Art as a trade, in other words to a distinctly expressive-artistic technical activity, suitable for aesthetically and functionally improving the complex of elements that characterise the living environment, but without any town-planning implications and less involvement in bureaucratic-administrative procedures. It is an educational course that aims to emphasise the unitary character of the human environment and therefore of the instruments and skills required to ensure its care and increase its quality.
Educational Objectives
The objectives pursued in the Habitat Design course are:
to guarantee to students the attainment of critical maturity, an understanding of the problems connected to transformational intervention on the living environment and methods for their most suitable solution;
to provide students with technical knowledge and educational experiences in the fields of construction and production – artisan and industrial – for a speedy and satisfying start to their professional activities;
to ensure graduates possess a secure planning method that encompasses creativity and rigour, both supported by an adequate grasp of the techniques of representation, both manual and computer-assisted, through the most advanced software available in 2 and 3D design and virtual modelling;
to form characters who are expert in multiple and complementary techniques, all unified by method, guaranteeing, at the same time, a flexible planning attitude that allows the young professional to deal with the challenges arising from rapid social mutations and not just existing ones.
Awarded qualification
Academic Diploma Level I recognized by MIUR.
Creative jobs
The graduates in Habitat Design can operate in many fields: all those situations when the intervention is required of a specialist capable of guaranteeing aesthetic quality united with technical and functional performance, respecting the available budget and with a particular attention to detail. More precisely: fitting out public or private spaces, whether residential or for work; commercial locations and places that are open to the public; renovation, reconversion and rehabilitation of spaces, including for changes of use.
The graduate in Habitat Design can draft plans and manage works for projects that do not require authorisation, that is, other than the abovementioned fittings of very sort: sets, exhibitions, temporary structures, gardens and open spaces, as well as designing objects of all kinds, including those that will be mass produced, by artisan or industrial structures. This is an extremely vast and varied operative field, that can allow unsuspected talents to emerge and also create professional opportunities in promising but largely unexplored sectors. As a professional, graduates can join one of the professional associations in Italy or abroad.
Partners
ADI, Abitare il Tempo, Fiera di Vicenza, Coni, Casa dell’Architettura, Ferrarelle, Barilla, Peroni-Nastro Azzurro, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna Roma, Palombini Caffè, Ikea, Salone Satellite di Milano, International Academy Okinawa, Caritas Diocesiana, Polizia di Stato, Casaidea, Slamp, Conservatoire International des Jardins.
Subjects
The course deals with, studies and thoroughly analyses all those disciplines that support the project, providing it, on the one hand, with the necessary pragmatic dimension, and, on the other, with that solid theoretical-critical structure and cultural depth that are indispensable for cultured and aware designer.
With this aim, the course teaches, other than the disciplines inherent in design, all those relative to construction materials and working techniques; the history and criticism of architecture, design and the figurative arts; the principles at the base of the visual languages as instruments and codes of invention; modelling applied to design. With these pragmatic objectives that aim at the acquisition, in a set time, of a solid professionalism, this course takes the form of a valid alternative to more theoretical studies.
After a first year aimed at establishing and consolidating the operative method and culture of creative design, over the next two years students increasingly deal with all the technical aspects and experiences that will be useful in their profession.
The three-year Habitat Design course aims directly at the result: the possession, on the part of the graduate, of professional skills and capabilities.
Course location
The course "Habitat Design" will be held in Rome at Quasar Design University.
Via Crescenzio 17 A Roma(RM) - 00193
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